Social support and psychotherapy outcomes for international students in university/college counseling centers

In the citing paper

“One recent study specifically examined the role of social support from the local community and discovered that international student clients in treatment at UCCs who experienced lower perceived social support demonstrated higher levels of psychological distress at the end of treatment compared to their domestic counterparts, highlighting the role of perceived social support in the differential tre”

In the citing paper

“First, studies frequently operationalize psychological distress as a univariate composite factor (e.g. Bartholomew et al., 2022; Keum et al., 2022; Robbins et al., 2024).”

In the citing paper

“Expanding upon the Robbins et al. (2024) study, which used all eligible clients, we used matching methods to create a more balanced dataset to address the wide gap in sample sizes between international and domestic student clients and to control for variables that may otherwise explain differences between the two groups.”

In the citing paper

“To account for the effect of treatment centers as documented in Keum et al. (2022) and Robbins et al. (2024), we included a fixed effect of treatment centers as a covariate in the Aim 2 models.”

In the citing paper

“we discovered that international student clients have lower perceived social network support (Robbins et al., 2024).”

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“Although these two constructs were assessed with single-item measures for actionable data collection in a large PRN context, these items have been shown to yield meaningful results in studies of social support among marginalized populations (e.g. Bartholomew et al., 2019; Robbins et al., 2024).”